Interview #2
My second interview is with a 9 year-old Chinese American who attends 4th grade at Challenger Elementary School in Newark, CA.
Q: Hello Meghan, your mom has told me that you are going to visit China this winter break?
A: Yes, I'm going to miss one week of school..
Q: Are you visiting family?
A: Yes..but my grandma lives in San Francisco.
Q: Do you like visiting China?
A: Yes, I like going there..but there's too much pollution! We stay in Hong Kong at my mom's sisters house. I have cousins there too.
Q: You visit China every year? You weren't born there?
A: We go every year..I was born in San Francisco.
Q: Do you like it here more?
A: Yes, I do..I like my friends here. I get to see them at school [Meghan is an only child] and we go to visit my grandma in San Francisco. My mom works there too at Genentech.
Q:Do you speak Chinese at home?
A: We speak Mandarin and English at home. I speak English with all my friends...I don't always understand everything in Mandarin.
Q: When is Chinese New Year? Is it coming up soon?
A:Umm..I think it will be in February, we go to my grandma's house for Chinese New Year. I like to eat Almond cookies..her cookies are so yummy!
Meghan in class (picture below)
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